cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/2712447 (I meant to post here first but the alternate spellings of “pal(a)eontology” got me mixed up lol)
Just forwarding along a two-toot thread from @[email protected] post with some Mastodon accounts related to paleontology. Copy-pasted and edited the relevant text here for y’all’s convenience:
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Featuring lots of well-preserved fossils, run by Kansas Geological Survey
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] (main) & https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] (museum) - Exec Director at Western Science Center, Calif. Expert on #mastodons
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Evolutionary #palaeobiologist, senior lecturer in #zoology at Univ. of Lincoln, UK
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Archaeologist & criminologist at Maastricht Univ, studying #fossil smuggling
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - #Palaeontologist & #plesiosaur expert, curator at Nottingham Natural History Museum in UK
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Fossil illustrator & science educator
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - In #palaeobiology dept at Univ. of Toronto, researching cat fossils
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Palaeontology student & makes Lego dinos
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Comics set in Earth’s distant past
➡️ https://scicomm.xyz/@[email protected] - Works with fossils & x-rays at Univ. of Manchester
If you have a Mastodon account, you can just plop these links in the search bar on your own instance and find them!
This may be the most awesome post I’ve seen in a decade!